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"Please keep in mind the two crucial ideas I mentioned: first--always, always first--profound reverence for the sacred value of a single human life;

and second, the monstrosity that is the United States government today, a government which is unquestionably a Death State in every way that matters, and in numerous ways that diminish the value of your own life each and every day..."

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"Consider again the nature of the subjects under discussion: the immense evil of torture and Obama's claim that he has the 'right' to assassinate anyone without judicial process or evidence of any kind whatsoever, simply because he says so.

Reread the little story offered above. And then be brave enough finally to state the truth, at least in what should be the sacred space of your own mind:

THIS IS INSANE.

THIS IS MONSTROUS.

THIS IS DEEPLY, UNFORGIVABLY, IRREDEEMABLY EVIL.

Here is a note for those of you who write and talk about these issues. If you write on these subjects and if you talk about them regularly on radio and television, and if you do NOT state -- repeatedly, with all the conviction and passion that you can command -- that actions of this kind are insane, monstrous and deeply evil, you are not opposing the monstrousness. You are accommodating it, seeking excuses for it, trying to minimize it--or, to use the phrase I often employ, in my own notes--you are 'making friends with evil.'

If you do this, you are not fighting against the monstrousness. You are a part of it.."

"...You may not want to face it -- hell I'd prefer not to have to face it -- but this is a country ready to be led to the slaughterhouse. This story -- and the fact that it has been received with near-universal apathy, which means acceptance -- should terrify you to the very core of your being.."